AIPACK - Run, Build, and Share AI Packs

Open-source Agentic Runtime to run, build, and share AI Packs.

• Simple & Powerful – 1 Agent = 1 multi-stage Markdown file with built-in concurrency, Map-Reduce, and all APIs on a single aip-doc page.

• Light & Lean – No bloat, < 20MB, single executable, ZERO dependencies.

• Efficient – Engine written in Rust with a lightweight and efficient embedded Lua script. All aip functions are implemented in Rust.

• Multi-AI – Supports all major AI providers and models at the native layer. For example, it can use zero thinking budget with Gemini models.

• Local or Cloud – Runs locally, is completely IDE-agnostic, or runs in the cloud, on a server or serverless.

BIG UPDATE 0.8.0 WITH NEW TUI

Check out:

• https://aipack.ai for more information and links, AIPACK News & Blog Posts

• Getting Started Video Tutorial

• AIPACK Lab Repo for some cool examples.

• AIPACK Substack at news.aipack.ai

• Video: AIPACK Concept Video

• Video: Build Agent Getting Started Video Tutorial

• Video: Production Coding With pro@coder AI PACK

• Video: Example generate doc from code

• Video: pro@coder with pro@rust10x Rust best practices

• Video: AIPACK Playlist

Quick Start

Install From Binaries

Mac, Linux, Windows, ARM & x86 platforms are supported. See below how to install the binaries.

(More info at aipack.ai/doc/install)

Mac

# Mac ARM / Apple Silicon
curl -O https://repo.aipack.ai/aip-dist/stable/latest/aarch64-apple-darwin/aip.tar.gz && \
        tar -xvf aip.tar.gz && \
        ./aip self setup

# Mac x86
curl -O https://repo.aipack.ai/aip-dist/stable/latest/x86_64-apple-darwin/aip.tar.gz && \
        tar -xvf aip.tar.gz && \
        ./aip self setup        

Linux

# Linux x86
curl -O https://repo.aipack.ai/aip-dist/stable/latest/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/aip.tar.gz && \
        tar -xvf aip.tar.gz && \
        ./aip self setup

# Linux ARM
curl -O https://repo.aipack.ai/aip-dist/stable/latest/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/aip.tar.gz && \
        tar -xvf aip.tar.gz && \
        ./aip self setup

Windows

# Windows x86
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://repo.aipack.ai/aip-dist/stable/latest/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/aip.tar.gz" -OutFile "aip.tar.gz"
tar -xvf aip.tar.gz
.\aip.exe self setup
     

# Windows ARM
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://repo.aipack.ai/aip-dist/stable/latest/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/aip.tar.gz" -OutFile "aip.tar.gz"
tar -xvf aip.tar.gz
.\aip.exe self setup

Install from source

For now, installation requires building directly from source via Rust. Works on all major OSes.

• Install Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

• For now, install with cargo install aipack

Run

# In the terminal, go to your project
cd /path/to/my/project/

# Initialize workspace .aipack/ and ~/.aipack-base
aip init

# Make sure to export the desired API key (no spaces around `=` Unix convention)
export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk...."
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="...."
export GEMINI_API_KEY="..."
# For more keys, see below

# Check the keys you set up
aip check-keys

# To proofread your README.md (namespace: demo, pack_name: proof)
aip run demo@proof -f ./README.md

# You can just use @pack_name if there is no other pack with this name
aip run @proof -f ./README.md

# To do some code crafting (will create `_craft-code.md`)
aip run demo@craft/code

# Or run your .aip file (you can omit the .aip extension)
aip run path/to/file.aip

# This is a good agent to run to ask questions about aipack
# It can even generate aipack code
aip run core@ask-aipack
# The prompt file will be at `.aipack/.prompt/core@ask-aipack/ask-prompt.md`

Thanks to

• Stephane Philipakis, a key aipack collaborator.

• David Horner for adding Windows support for Open Agent (with VSCode) (#30)

• Diaa Kasem for --non-interactive/--ni (Now, in v0.7.x -s or --single-shot) mode (#28)

pro@coder

• You can install pro@coder with aip install pro@coder, and then
• Run it with aip run pro@coder or aip run @coder if you don't have any other @coder pack in a different namespace.

This is the agent I use every day for my production coding.

IMPORTANT 1: Make sure everything is committed before use (at least while you are learning about aipack).

IMPORTANT 2: Make sure to have your API_KEY set as an environment variable (on Mac, there is experimental keychain support).

OPENAI_API_KEY
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
GEMINI_API_KEY
XAI_API_KEY
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
GROQ_API_KEY
COHERE_API_KEY

More Info

• Website: https://aipack.ai

• AIPACK Overview Video

• Preview 'devai' intro video for v0.5

• Built on top of the Rust genai library, which supports many top AI providers and models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, Ollama, xAI, and Cohere).

• Top new features: (see full details CHANGELOG)

  • 2025-04-13 (v0.7.0) - BIG RELEASE - Windows Support (x86 & ARM), and more
  • 2025-04-08 (v0.6.17) - Binaries available (mac/linux), pro@coder, pro@rust10x
  • 2025-03-28 - (v0.6.15) - new: aip check-keys
  • 2025-03-25 (v0.6.14) - agent - add aip.flow.data_response({input?, data?, options?}) (e.g., model override by input)
  • 2025-03-20 (v0.6.12) - Now can call agent within agents aip.agent.run(agent_name, {inputs?, options?})
  • 2025-03-12 (v0.6.9) - Now supports namespace@pack_name/some/**/*.* for all aip.file..
  • 2025-03-02 (v0.6.7) - Fixes and tune-up. Pack install test and other refactoring
  • 2025-02-28 (v0.6.3) - aip pack .., aip install local..., ai_response.price_usd, and more
  • 2025-02-26 (v0.6.0) - BIG UPDATE - to AIPACK, now with pack support (e.g., aip run demo@craft/code)**
  • 2025-02-22 (v0.5.11) - Huge update with parametric agents and coder (more info soon)
  • 2025-01-27 (v0.5.9) - DeepSeek distill models support for Groq and Ollama (local)
  • 2025-01-23 (v0.5.7) - aipack run craft/text or aipack run craft/code (example of new agent module support)
  • 2025-01-06 (v0.5.4) - DeepSeek deepseek-chat support
  • 2024-12-08 (v0.5.1) - Added support for xAI

How it works

• One Agent == One Markdown
  • An .aip agent file is just a Markdown file with sections for each stage of the agent's processing.
  • See below for all the possible stages.
• aip run demo@proof -f "./*.md"
  • will run the installed agent file main.aip in the
  • pack named proof
  • namespace demo
  • agent file main.aip
  • Full path ~/.aipack-base/pack/installed/demo/proof/main.aip
  • You can pass input to your agent using:
    • -f "path/with/optional/**/glob.*" -f "README.md" (the Lua code will receive a {path = .., name =..} FileInfo-like structure as input)
    • -i "some string" -i "another input" (the Lua code will receive these strings as input)
    • Each input triggers one run of the agent.
• aip run some/path/to/agent
  • If the path ends with .aip, it's treated as a direct file run.
  • If there is no .aip extension, then:
    • .../agent.aip will be executed if it exists.
    • or .../agent/main.aip will be executed if it exists.
• aipack agents are simple .aip files that can be placed anywhere on disk.
  • e.g., aipack run ./my-path/to/my-agent.aip ...
• Multi AI Provider / Models - aipack uses genai and therefore supports providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, Ollama, Cohere, and more.
• Lua is used for all scripting (thanks to the great mlua crate).
• Handlebars is used for all prompt templating (thanks to the great Rust native handlebars crate).

Multi Stage

A single aipack file may comprise any of the following stages.

• # Before All and # After All act like the map and reduce steps, running before and after the main input processing loop, respectively.

more info on stages

aipack doc

See the aipack documentation at core/doc/README.md (with the Lua modules doc).

You can also run the ask-aipack agent.

# IMPORTANT: Make sure you have the `OPENAI_API_KEY` (or the key for your desired model) set in your environment
aip run core@ask-aipack
# The prompt file will be at `.aipack/.prompt/core@ask-aipack/ask-prompt.md`